Mike McLean

Shriners mulls $15 million-plus expansion of its Spokane hospital

$15 million-plus project could receive approval in April

February 28, 2013

Just a few years after facing possible closure and enduring painful belt tightening, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Spokane has been recognized as the most efficient of the 22 Shriners hospitals and now is proposing a $15 million-plus expansion, a

WSU Spokane readies for second-year med school students

Supporters lobby to make full program permanent at Riverpoint Campus

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

Thanks to a two-year pilot program set to start in the fall, medical students in all four years of medical school soon will receive education and training based at the Riverpoint Campus, in Spokane. Even before that pilot program starts, public and

Contractor grows with shift to facility protection focus

Perimeter Security Group also acquires Cd'A fence company

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

As the residential construction market collapsed in the Inland Northwest in 2008, Brenda Blood decided she had to steer MAC Industries Inc., a North Idaho automated gate company she had just bought, in a different direction.So she created a new

River Day School to move to former Sonitrol building

Private facility to leave location it shares with Ascend learning center

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

River Day School, a private kindergarten through sixth-grade school, has leased the 4,400-square-foot former Sonitrol building, at 1627 E. Trent, along with an adjacent vacant lot, and plans to move there this spring, says Colleen Curran, executive

Charitable institution moves into larger space downtown

Community foundation says Paulsen Center site provides growing room

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

The Spokane-based Inland Northwest Community Foundation has leased 4,800 square feet of office space in the Paulsen Center downtown and has moved there from smaller quarters.INWCF's space on the sixth floor of the historic downtown building, at

Alaskan concern acquires Spokane Valley-based Aztech Electric

Aztech will provide new parent company solid foothold in Northwest

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

An Alaska company has bought Aztech Electric Inc., of Spokane Valley, and plans to continue operating the electrical contracting concern under its longtime name here, says Todd Booth, Aztech Electric's new manager.The acquisition, which was Jan.

Steve Salvatori to buy Buchanan Building in downtown Spokane

Limelyte software company plans to be main tenant

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

Steve Salvatori, a commercial building landlord who specializes in offering low-rent office space to business startups, says he plans to purchase the Buchanan Building, at 28 W. Third, downtown. The transaction is expected to be completed next a

Spokane-area building permit valuations climb to four-year high

City cites public works projects as contributing to 50 percent increase

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

The value of building permits issued countywide in 2012 rose to a four-year high, records for Spokane County and the cities of Spokane and Spokane Valley show.The permit valuations for the last year in the three jurisdictions totaled $682.1 up a

Spokane Convention Center hotel waits on appraisals

Worthy says intent letter extended until June 1 as PFD studies valuations

February 14, 2013

Mike McLean

Spokane hotelier and developer Walt Worthy says a formal development agreement that would clear the way for work to start on a $50 million convention center headquarters hotel downtown is progressing slower than he had envisioned, as the Spokane is

Treatment plant aims to conserve—inside and out

Facility designed to protect aquifer, boasts energy-saving features

January 31, 2013

Mike McLean

The whole concept behind a sewer plant, such as the Spokane County Regional Water Reclamation Facility, could be considered green, says David Moss, the county's water reclamation manager, adding that the facility also boasts many green-engineered a